More Woman in Charge Errors

A footnote on page 382 says that HRC “would use [the phrase ‘the politics of personal destruction’] effectively, too, in her presidential campaign.” The book hit stores within the last month– how much of her campaign could he have witnessed before putting the book to bed?

On pages 469- 470, Bernstein refers to old Clinton family friend James Riady and his “objectives,” which included “recognition of North Vietnam.”

On page 530, Bernstein writes that the Democrats picked up five seats in the 1998 elections, “shrinking the Republican majority from 223 to 211.” A loss of five seats from the 105th Congress left the GOP with 218, not 211, seats.

Alicia Shepard takes a look at the Woodstein legacy on its 35th anniversary: “The drama that concluded with the early departure of the nation’s 37th president included a few other key characters as well.”